Quotes of: Shape Keyword

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

Dwight Howard

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Rick Moody

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

Toni Morrison

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Paul Wolfowitz

Too late for that now,” the Eldest Leprechaun said. “The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape. They gave a name and a shape to the force that’s always hated us. It’s everything we’re not. It’s New Ireland, it’s mone...

Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

If you notice, the moral law in the other legal codes separates people (the Laws of Manu, the caste system, the Code of Hammurabi with the slave/owner distinction). In Islam, the violator is inferior to the obedient one. By contrast, in the Hebrew-Ch...

The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observi...

Niels Lyhne

It was in this situation that she penetrated as a vague shape into the existence of Thomas. Everything there appeared desolate and mournful. Deserted shores where deeper and deeper absences, abandoned by the eternally departed sea after a magnificent...

Thomas the Obscure

By the 1980's and 1990's, Moore's Law had emerged as the underlying assumption that governed almost everything in the Valley, from technology to business, education, and even culture. The "law" said the number of transistors would double every couple...

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The great gain was that I very soon became able to understand a great deal without (even mentally) translating it; I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom only the Greek word lives...

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

One of the biggest mistakes that a lot of people make, is that they are in the habit of working out only when they feel out of shape or when the weather is about to warm up. But when they succeed in getting back in shape, they would stop exercising o...

Edmond Mbiaka

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities?

Conservation of Shadows

in time to come be shaped by the human mind.” Asked

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole." "In the Shape of Shep

Flash Warden and Other Stories

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

God-Shaped Hole

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Gary Lineker

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

Hamlet

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

The Joy Luck Club